Tullian Tchividjian

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is…

— Tullian Tchividjian

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian…

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The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement…

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The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more…

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Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've…

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Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan…

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I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be…

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The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever…

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In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as…

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Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the…

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Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move…

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There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how…

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“God intends to free us from more than our idolatry; He intends to free us from ourselves. He even wants to liberate…

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I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off…

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We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement…

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I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible…

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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we…

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God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our…

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Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's…

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Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and…

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“Contrary to popular belief, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is about bad people coping with their…

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The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you…

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As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing…

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God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have…

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Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your…

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In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my…

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When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the…

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When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured…

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At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to…

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“...the great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other…

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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles…

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“When I look back upon resolutions of improvement and amendment, which have year after year been made and broken, … why do…

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For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be…

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When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I…

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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life…

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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them…

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The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under…

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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't…

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Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I…

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